Building Online Communities. It's easy to install and run a Web site or a mailing list. It's hard to run it well. The secret lies in understanding and adopting the best characteristics of several online communities. Ausdrucken! [O'Reilly Network Articles][Der Schockwellenreiter] [thomas n. burg | randgänge] [Blogging Alone]

A nice read, very down-to-earth. Things worth keeping in mind.

Blogs are our Avatars. I was mulling over the difference between posting in mailing lists and posting to your own blog. We can communicate equally well in both media; and both media provide for a public record. So what accounts for the growing preference of people to have their own blog? It's simple, the presentation of a person in a mailing list is fragmented, there is no coherance ... their personality is scatterd amoung their different posts. Not so with a blog, one's personality comes through loud and clear. Its like when we go to a party ... we dress up ... we try to present ourselves as we want to be seen, we can do that in our own blog, it's a lot harder in mail groups and in Usenet.

I think (hope) blogs will evolve rapidly ... they will become our public persona ... they will become our avatars !!. [Seth Russell's Blog]

When I'm physically present with someone, my body is my interface to them, and their interface to me. The weblog is truly performing a similar function on the net, but perhaps in an even more powerful manner. You can't read my mind by just seeing me, but you learn a lot about me just by reading this very webpage. I explain this a little bit more in my blog's introduction and in this post.

http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/04/04/webservices/index.html

http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

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